AlQa'dah 23, 1433, Oct 9, 2012, SPA -- Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states' ministers of information recommended GCC fellow-members to follow suit of the example adopted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of establishing a mechanism for organizing the audio-visual media. In a statement marking the end of their 20th session here today, they welcomed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's hosting of the forthcoming symposium regarding the activation and implementation of the Information Strategy, the hosting of Bahrain of holding the First Information Forum of the GCC 2013, the 21st GCC Information Conference and the arrangement of a trip of GCC countries for a number of post-graduate students from the U.S. and Europe, particularly studying political science, international relations and media. They called for the production of more TV and radio programs on national events, GCC march and popular dialogue. The ministers expressed support for a proposal submitted by the Minister of Culture and Information of the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia regarding the activation of the role of foreign-language oriented radios. They agreed that the GCC national news agencies launch a unified account on the YouTube, and a channel on the internet for direct broadcasting for all official events to enable the transfer of the transmission to e-sites and social communication networks. They recommended that all GCC news agencies intensify the news and reports explaining the GCC member countries political positions, noting that the news should be taken from their official sources and then distributed to a wide-range recipients in different languages. --More
